# creptst
## English
### Alternative forms

* crept'st

### Verb

creptst
* (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of creep
** 1573, “An exposition vppon the v. vi. vii. chapters of Mathew, which three chapters are the keye and the dore of the scripture, and the restoring agayne of Moses law corrupte by the Scribes and Pharises. And the exposition is the restoring agayne of Christes lawe corrupte by the Papistes.”, in The Whole Workes of W[illiam] Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct[or Robert] Barnes, Three Worthy Martyrs, and Principall Teachers of This Churche of England, Collected and Compiled in One Tome Togither, Beyng Before Scattered, ⁊ Now in Print Here Exhibited to the Church. […], London: […] Iohn Daye, […], fifth chapter, page 198, column 1:Foꝛ if it were there, thou ſhouldeſt ſee it ſhyne abꝛoad though thou creptſt not into a ſell oꝛ a monkes coule, as thou ſeeſt yͤ lightning without crepyng into the cloudes, yea their light would ſo ſhine that men ſhould not onely ſee yͤ lyght of the Goſpell, but alſo their good woꝛkes, which would as faſt come out, as they now runne in.
** 1630, William Vaughan, The Arraignment of Slander Periury Blasphemy, and Other Malicious Sinnes, Shewing Sundry Examples of Gods Iudgements Against the Ofenders. […], London: […] Francis Constable, […], page 71:Firſt, thou choſeſt the ſubtleſt beaſt, which God created; then, thou creptſt into his heart, ſpakeſt through his mouth, and ſeeing mankind too ſimple for this world, altogether innocent, holy, deuour, hauing his thoughts intentiue on his Maker, and alſo ſeeing him like a childe newly borne, bedazeled with varieties of obiects, and proſpects, and admiring at the wonderfull workemanſhip of God, which ſeemed the more ſtrange vnto his ſenſes, in regard that he was then vnexperienced, raw, and newly come into the world; […]
** 1656, R[obert] Fletcher, “Obsequies To the memory of the truly Noble, right Valiant and right Honourable Spencer Earle of Northampton Slain at Hopton Field in Saffordshire in the beginning of this Civill War”, in Ex Otio Negotium. Or, Martiall His Epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies, London: […] T. Mabb, for William Shears, […], page 188:[…] when thou ſtolest creptſt under / That Helmet which durſt dare Jove and his thunderD[aniel] H[olt] Woodward (1970) “Commentary”, in The Poems and Translations of Robert Fletcher, Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, →ISBN, page 272: “Stolest creptst may represent unresolved alternatives in the author’s manuscript, and durst dare is redundant.”
** 1656, Tho[mas] Goffe, “The Raging Turke, or, the Tragedie of Baiazet, the second of that name”, in Three Excellent Tragœdies. Viz. The Raging Turk, or, Bajazet the Second. The Courageous Turk, or, Amurath the First. And The Tragoedie of Orestes. […], 2nd edition, London: […] G. Bedell and T. Collins, […], act 4, scene 7, page 77:Abortive monſter—thou firſt breath of ſin, we had but ſlender ſhadows of offence, till thou creptſt forth to the offended light, the very maſſe, and ſtocke of villanie.
** 1807 June 27, Occasional Correspondent [pseudonym], “A Sentimental Rhapsody”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume XXXVIII, London: […] G[eorge] Robinson, published July 1807, page 347, column 1:Hatched from the shell, thou creptst from off the leaf; […]
** 1839, Esaias Tegnér, translated by G[eorge] S[tephens], “Canto XIX. Frithiof’s Temptation.”, in Frithiof’s Saga, a Legend of the North, Stockholm: A. Bonnier; London: Black and Armstrong, stanza XIX, page 178:Wherefore to my Palace creptst Thou!
** 1907, Percy MacKaye, Sappho and Phaon: A Tragedy, Set Forth with a Prologue, Induction, Prelude, Interludes, and Epilogue, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., act II, page 125:How creptst thou here, / Sand-snail?
** 1915 March–April, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, transl., “The Tale of Helgi Hundingsbane”, in The American-Scandinavian Review, volume III, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, pages 85–86:Thou has fed fat on the victual of wolves; with a wolf’s mouth didst thou become the slayer of thy brother, and oft with cool lips didst suck his wounds; then loathed of all creatures creptst into thy foul den.
** 2008, Roger Butters, All Wind and Pistol (The Memoirs of Ancient Pistol, Secret Agent; 1), Sussex: Book Guild Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:Thinkst thou that I did not observe how thou creptst about, taking care to preserve thine own precious skin, when a friend needed help!